Three passengers were injured when the angling charter Starida 2, owned by former Beaumaris mayor Stan Zalot, collided with the town’s pier.

The impact of the collision holed the ship’s bow above the water line and threw the passengers, who were standing at the time, forward.

The Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed that a man and a woman in their 60s were taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor with minor injuries as a precaution. A third passenger suffered minor back injuries and was brought ashore by Beaumaris RNLI’s inshore lifeboat.

The cause of the crash, which took place just after 3pm yesterday, will be subject to a Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB).

Mr Zalot, who was not skippering the vessel at the time, said: “I have no comment to make.”